What's the difference between JKD and RBSD to you?

[MMA Apostate]

Is there a difference?

Look forward to your guys' replies and insights.

[The_Judo_Jibboo]

as far as i know, most places that claim to teach RBSD don't have one particular "style". they pick aspects from many styles that can be most quickly learned to be deployed with a high success rate. this means very simple techniques. it's not hard to make the connection though that both RBSD and JKD stress finding what is effective and throwing the rest out.

some RBSD places are heavy into JKD for just that reason, and depending on how you train JKD it could be considered a RBSD. the two aren't necessarily tied together in any way though.

[ryanwp941979]

I think Bruce was always a wing chun man at heart. Even when he changed all of his techniques, he still upheld the principles of wing chun. Many moves taught in all jkd schools- straight blast, for ex., have a wing chun root even if divorced from wing chun footwork. RSBD has no respect for wing chun; it is more like military combatives or defendu or something like that.

[Patrick G.]

Originally Posted by ryanwp941979

I think Bruce was always a wing chun man at heart. Even when he changed all of his techniques, he still upheld the principles of wing chun. Many moves taught in all jkd schools- straight blast, for ex., have a wing chun root even if divorced from wing chun footwork. RSBD has no respect for wing chun; it is more like military combatives or defendu or something like that.

I think if you somehow seperated the whole concept of JKD from Bruce Lee himself, you would see that it is indeed RBSD. What I mean by this is, Bruce Lee is human. And a human being will always revert back to their "comfort zone" or what has been shown to work for them. This is a psychological, almost sub-conscious thing, and takes many many years to undo. Bruce Lee was getting to that point where the Wing Chun was almost entirely eliminated from his curriculum, but do to his untimely death, we were left with a system which still had some elements of JKD in it. Who knows...maybe if he were still alive today, we would not see any trace of Wing Chun in his fighting system. It would most likely be a lot like the other RBSD systems you see today, incorporating firearms and edged weapons and such.